Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To look or stare angrily or sullenly: synonym: frown.
  • noun An angry or sullen look or stare.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In electricity, the light-giving body of a Nernst lamp. See Nernst lamp.
  • To look intently or watchfully; stare angrily or threateningly; frown.
  • noun An angry or threatening stare.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb intransitive To look or stare with anger.
  • noun An angry stare or glare.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval
  • verb look at with a fixed gaze
  • noun an angry stare

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English gloren, probably of Scandinavian origin; see ghel- in Indo-European roots.]

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Examples

  • The expression could best be described as a glower.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • The expression could best be described as a glower.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • Setting his hand to the hilt of his sword, he cast the boy the kind of glower intended to help him make the right decision in short order.

    The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004

  • She regarded the overdressed girl with aversion, answered her mincingly-spoken "How do you do, Marjory?" very curtly, and continued to "glower," as Mrs. Smylie described it, without saying another word.

    Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls Margaret Bruce Clarke

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    Evil Beet Gossip 2009

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  • Quotables: She is by no means a literary genius …. .her excessive use of the word 'glower' ...

    Evil Beet Gossip 2009

  • Quotables: She is by no means a literary genius …. .her excessive use of the word 'glower' ...

    Evil Beet Gossip 2009

  • Quotables: She is by no means a literary genius …. .her excessive use of the word 'glower' ...

    Evil Beet Gossip 2009

  • Quotables: She is by no means a literary genius …. .her excessive use of the word 'glower' ...

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  • One who glows; dark look.

    November 22, 2007